zizania
See also: Zizania
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin zizania (“cockle, tares”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zɪˈzeɪniə/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪniə
Noun
zizania (plural zizanias)
- Any of several aquatic North American grasses, of the genus Zizania, grown for their edible grain; wild rice.
Latin
FWOTD – 3 February 2016
Etymology
Originally a neuter plural form (see zizā̆nium), which could be subject to a highly productive process of reinterpretation as collective feminine singular.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /zizˈzaː.ni.a/, [d̪͡z̪ɪz̪ˈd̪͡z̪äːniä] or IPA(key): /zizˈza.ni.a/, [d̪͡z̪ɪz̪ˈd̪͡z̪äniä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /d͡zidˈd͡za.ni.a/, [d̪͡z̪id̪ˈd̪͡z̪äːniä]
Audio (Classical) (file) - Note: the /a/ is apparently long in Sumerian, unattested in Greek, scanned variously in Latin. The length of the /i/ before the underlyingly-geminate /z/ is unknown.
Noun
zizā̆nia
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of zizā̆nium
Noun
zizā̆nia f (genitive zizā̆niae); first declension
- Alternative form of zizā̆nium (“tares; vices”)
- 1267, anonymous, Scribere proposui:
- Scribere proposui de contemptu mundano
iam est hora surgere de sonpno mortis uano ·
zizaniam spernere sumpto ui[r]tutum grano ·
Surge surge uigila semper esto paratus ·- I have set forth to write of contempt of the world.
Now is the hour to arise from the vain sleep of death,
to scorn the tares, choosing the grain of virtue:
Arise, arise, be vigilant, always be prepared.
- I have set forth to write of contempt of the world.
- Scribere proposui de contemptu mundano
- 1267, anonymous, Scribere proposui:
Further reading
- “zīzā̆nĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ZIZANIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ZIZANIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- 1 zīzānĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,701/3”
- 2 zīzănĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,701/3”